Cuban Communist Party delegation visits Vietnam

At a reception in Hanoi on January 12 for a visiting delegation from the Cuban Communist Party Central Committee’s Department for External Relations led by its deputy head Carlos Marsan, Thuong, who is also head of the CPVCC’s Commission for Information and Education, asked the two parties to make thorough preparations for delegation exchanges in 2018 and activities celebrating 45 years since the visit by Cuban leader Fidel Castro to the southern liberation zone of Vietnam (September 1973-2018). He said he hopes that such activities will contribute to further deepening the exemplary brotherhood, traditional friendship, comprehensive cooperation and loyal solidarity between the Parties, States and people of Vietnam and Cuba. Carlos Marsan, in turn thanked the Vietnamese Party, State and people for their unwavering support and solidarity given to Cuba, underlining his country’s determination to foster the bilateral special ties. Regarding Cuba’s situation and its economic update achievements, he said the Party, Sate and people of Cuba will continue pursuing the goal of building Cuba into a prosperous socialist country.

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